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Edison Bell Electron 0156 Thomas Mignon Gavotte, Bridge Sally in our Alley, Brosa Quartet

by: Ambroise Thomas; Frank Bridge; Henry Carey

Publication date: 1927

Topics: classical, shellac, chamber music, salon music, opera, arrangement, string quartet, Frank Bridge, Ambroise Thomas, Antonio Brosa, Brosa Quartet, Edison Bell, 78 rpm

Language: English

Ambroise Thomas (1811-1896)

Mignon. Opéra comique in three acts
Act II, No.7. Entr’acte
Arrangement for string quartet, not credited on disc label, as ‘Gavotte’

Frank Bridge (1879-1941)
(billed on disc label as Bridges)

Two old English Songs for string quartet or string orchestra
I. Sally in our Alley
[after the song by Henry Carey (1687-1743)]

Brosa String Quartet
Members, not named on disc labels:
Antonio Brosa (violin I)
Hyam Greenbaum (violin II)
Leonard Rubens (viola)
Anthony Pini (’cello)

Recorded: 1927(?), Edison Bell studio, Peckham, London
Format: coarse-groove, 78 rpm, 10” / 25 cm, electrical
Matrices: 10942-3 / 10943-2
Issued: September 1927

Catalogue number: 0156

A different take of mtx 10942 was issued c. 1933 in France on Primivox M 0561

Transfer and restoration: Robert Cowlin for DogintheManger
Additional restoration and photographs: DogintheManger

Contemporary sources
Unsigned review, The Clifton and Redland Free Press, Thursday 15 September 1927, p.3, and South Bristol Free Press and Bedminster, Knowle & Brislington Record, Saturday 17 September 1927, p.3
Unsigned review, Edinburgh Evening News, Monday 19 September 1927, p.7; reprinted in The Berwickshire News, Tuesday 4 October 1927, p.8
Unsigned mention, The Daily Mail [Hull], Wednesday 21 September 1927, p.8
Unsigned review, Middlesex Advertiser and County Gazette, Friday 23 September 1927, p.10

Unsigned review, The Courier and Advertiser [Dundee], Wednesday 28 September 1927, p.12

Review by L.N.B., Derby Daily Telegraph, Thursday 29 September 1927, p.5

Review by Peter Latham, The Gramophone, Vol.V No.5, October 1927, p.188
Review by ‘Stylus’, The Glamorgan Advertiser, Friday 7 October 1927, p.7
Unsigned review, The Western Morning News and Western Daily Mercury, Monday 10 October 1927, p.3
Review by ‘Euphonius’, The Leeds Mercury, Wednesday 12 October 1927, p.6